A BOOK OF SCROLLS: The Scroll and Box

Following the death of Lord Sy.mo.dare, the first among those Watchers of the great departure, his grandson Sear.fym began having night terrors and visions while fully awake. From the cloth remains of his grandfather’s shroud, Searfym wrote down his impressions of the woes yet to befall them as a prophecy of the Neither world. Filled with regrets for not leaving with their kin aboard the Swan fleet, Searfym left in the cover of night that bay harbor’s community of twenty-and-one souls. He desired to learn if others yet remained uncounted of their people. Searfym left behind his sister, Lyreah with word that his brother-friend Nath.vier.in should keep and do as he felt with the crafted scroll.

Nathvierin likewise wrote upon the back side of Serafim’s cloth his own remembrances of that great departure of the Fay from the world of Men. Later, desiring to honor his friend, did he craft an ornate box in which to house the delicate sheet. The Scroll and Box were read before those Watchers. They were most impressed and taken back with awe at the hearing of it. From among them, Ga.la.dir said upon the anniversary it should be their tradition to publicly read and recount their own memories of the occasion as well. The Scroll and Box came to be held as a sacred record, and the beginning point of many new things among them. The Relic therefore was kept in the House of Meeting.

It came to pass, with the rise of other Lords among them a day when the sacred Scroll and Box came missing. It fell in the second year of the third King’s reign, that Nuth.cor.lan was outraged by the artifact’s theft. He ordered every house within the Harbor city, now renamed as Lin.dol.en,mith.ar, to be searched and all its inhabitants promptly questioned. If the Scroll and Box were returned, undamaged then no questions and no judgments would be pursued. Yet if after three days from the King’s decree, it was returned and the one in possession of the Scroll and Box were found they would be shunned from beyond the city walls. After that time, again King Nuthcorlan pronounced that, after an additional eight days be given, and if then whosoever was found in possession of the Holy Record would be imprisoned within the Tower of Varlendur, with the entirety of their Household being put to death. Three years later and still the sacred record of Searfym’s scroll was not recovered yet the King’s word had become law till fulfilled. It became one of many such fears imposed upon the people of Lindolenmithar.

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